How to find the location of the installed Chrome Extension

[Arun Subramanian]

Hi,

I am running the extension as unpacked extensions

I'm trying to launch/load an html file (in Chrome browser) in the same folder/location as extension files.

//Example code from the Chrome extension...
var ref = String(window.location) ;
ref = ref.substr(0, ref.lastIndexOf("/"))+"/somefile.html" ;
chrome.browser.openTab({url:ref});

Result:
Chrome throws the following error:
"The webpage at chrome-extension://invalid/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address."

However, the Developer Tools, the following is line displayed:
ref: chrome-extension://bbelanfbkooidlophmgpbpkbolplmkmi/somefile.html

Could any one help how to open the browser from extension app as unpacked.

Thanks,

Arun

[Antony Sargent]

An extension can get URLs to reference files in it's own folder by passing the relative path to chrome.runtime.getURL - this is just a convenient helper that will generate a URL of the form chrome-extension://<extension_id>/<relative_path>

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